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This is the KKFI Jazz Event Calendar for the week of Monday, October 20 to Sunday, October 26. This is shared for the benefit of jazz music lovers. Please check with the music venue to confirm details of the event. All times are Central Time. All performances are evening shows except where indicated with words like “brunch” or “noon”

Monday, October 20

Schmitt Music at 119th and Metclaf brings in Ragtime Revelry with Richard Dowling and Frederick Hodges at 7:00

The Broadway Jazz Club at 3601 Broadway features guitarist Brian Ruskin for happy hour at 4:30 followed by vocalist Dave Stephens with Hermon Mehari from 7:00 – 11:00. Pianist Mark Lowrey finishes the evening at the Broadway from 11:30 – 1:30

The Phoenix at 8th and Central has Lonnie McFadden from 4:30 – 8:30 followed by the MGD’s until 1:00.

The Majestic Restaurant at 9th and Broadway has pianist Bram Wijnands from 7:00 – 11:00

Louie’s Wine Dive at 71st and Wornall has live music from 7:00 – 11:00

The Blue Room at 18th and Vine presents kkfi’s own Jazz Disciple with Paula Saunders and Jason Goudeau from 8:30 – 12:30 Saturday

The Green Lady Lounge at 18th and Grand presents Eddie Moore and the Outer Circle from 6:00 – 9:00 followed by OJT from 10:00 – 2:00 Saturday. Sunday the 627 Foundation Big Band appears at the Green Lady from 8:30 – 11:30.

The Broadway Jazz Club at 3601 Broadway has vocalist Angela Hagenbach Saturday from 7:00 – 11:00 followed by Linnaia McKenzie until 1:30. Sunday vocalist Laura Chalk performs a jazz brunch at the Broadway Club from 10:30 – 3:00

Chaz at the Raphael Hotel at Wornall and Ward Parkway features Steve Gray with Shannon Lipps for the Saturday brunch from 10:00 – 1:00 followed by vocalist Angela Hagenbach from 7:00 – 11:00. Eboni Fondren sings the Sunday brunch at Chaz at 10:00 AM

The Phoenix at 8th and Central has a jazz brunch Saturday with Alex Abramowitz and the swingin’ Kansas City Fives from 10:00 – 2:00 and pianist Tim Whitmer from 4:30 – 8:30 followed by vocalist Molly Hammer from 9:00 – 1:00

About a week and a half ago, we caught local blues act the Filthy 13 over at Coda. The Filthy 13 is a 4 piece outfit features Amaretto Slim on guitar and vocals backed up by bass, drums and harp. The sound is very fuzz heavy, deep blues sound. Slim’s voice is dark and gravely reminiscent of Howlin’ Wolf. His guitar style is part delta, part Texas.

Generally wielding any number of Stratocasters, he keeps things lively with his macabre humor and banter. The rest of the band fills out the tunes with great energy and crisp punchy sound. These guys should be on your short list of blues acts around KC to catch.

KC Live Music Blog – Head over here to see more images from Filthy 13′s set.

There’s little in the music of “Get By Get High” to support such a “psychedelic” title. On the opening track from Minneapolis folk-artist Feathered Rhino’s self-titled EP, an unnervingly ragged guitar figure emerges and lingers throughout. It doesn’t sound: detuned, out of tune, or off key, no it sounds like it’s on its last leg, like it will collapse at any second. If there’s any sort of psychedelic, it’s hidden in that haunting declaration.

And considering the weight Joseph Wilcox is putting on an already rickety frame, you’d forgive it for collapsing. Immediately Wilcox is croaking “by myself,” as though he’s been lonely for so long now all he can do is genuflect on his own isolation. What started as an attempt to “find my way” has turned into a slog to find any sort of connection. You can hear the desperation in that aforementioned croak, which winds through the rafters of an abandoned barn. At some point it gives up altogether and drifts off to sleep, where an unnamed affection’s “eyes are in my dreams at night,” as Wilcox puts it. Hidden in that haunting declaration is a tinge of psychedelia. Nothing lysergic or mind-expanding, instead the sort where you’re transfixed on a singular object. Time slows to a halt. Heavy-breathing kicks-in. The “high” shifts from physical to spiritual.

Feathered Rhino is available now on Bandcamp, courtesy of local label Petrified Records.

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